IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 215233 accession number: P.14417-R-4 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 updated: Friday 26 January 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: A cameo-embossed lace-paper envelope with four flaps and scenes of chinese pagodas, bridges, boats, trees and temples containing a cameo-embossed valentine of white lace-paper with a pale pink slip paper in landscape orientation; a scene with classical fluted columns, a boat beneath a bridge, urn inside a temple and female figure carrying a scroll. An oval window at the centre backed with white silk with letterpress title and verse printed in black ink: 'REMEMBRANCE / ' "Forget me not," an echo lives / In friendship's feeling heart, / Respecting sweetest symphonies, / Where absence makes it smart. / Oh! simple words with love imbued, / How hearts respond to thee! / In cadence soft thro' struggling fears, / My friend - "Remember me!" '. 'MEEK' stamped below the urn at lower left. P.14417-R-3 is a similar card with a cameo-embossed scene, pink slip paper and oval window. title: Valentine card LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints creditline: Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/215233 TECHNIQUES ---------- applied textile TECHNIQUES ---------- letterpress CATEGORIES ------ category: print category: album DATING ------ creation date: 1850 - 1860 creation date earliest: 1850 creation date latest: 1860 culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Meek, George IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14417_R_4_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 861 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14417_R_4_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 420 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14417_R_4_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 861 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14417_R_4_1_201608_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 210 pixels width: 250 pixels